UPDATE: New York will dress a very weak lineup today. Dan Rosen of NHL.com reports that Artem Anisimov, Brad Richards, Marian Gaborik, Ryan Callahan, Brandon Dubinsky, Derek Stepan, Ruslan Fedotenko, Dan Girardi, Ryan McDonagh, Mike Sauer and Steve Eminger will all be scratches. The good news is that Sauer was back on the ice this morning. (9.11 a.m.)

EARLIER: The Rangers are right back in action again tomorrow
afternoon in the highly anticipated return of Henrik Lundqvist to
Gothenburg, Sweden against his former team, Frolunda HC, of the Swedish
Elite League.

In the first leg of their European excursion the Blueshirts
bested HC Sparta Prague 2-0 as Lundqvist’s backup, Martin Biron, delivered
a shutout.But tomorrow the story
will be all about Hank, who played for the Indians from 2000-2005 and led the
team to league titles in 2003 and 2005.In
his final season with the club Lundqvist was named Best Goaltender, Best
Swedish Player and he was voted MVP by the Swedish Elite League’s players.

Lundqvist, originally drafted by the Rangers in the seventh
round of the 2000 draft, has been excited about this matchup since the European
trip was first announced.

"It's hard not to think about it," Lundqvist told
NHL.com’s Dan Rosen."The last
few days it feels like 80 percent of the time I think about going back home and
playing there."

Coach John Tortorella gave Biron the start on Thursday so
that Lundqvist could get play against his old team, which features ex-Ranger
Christian Backman and Lundqvist’s brother, Joel, who serves as Frolunda’s
captain.Long-time Boston Bruin P.J.
Axelsson and former Philadelphia Flyer Mika Pyörälä are also members of the
Rangers’ opponent.

It should be a slightly better test for New York, which
started off slowly today against its Czech Extraliga opponent but was able to
pick up a victory anyway off of second period goals by Artem Anisimov and
Ruslan Fedotenko.

Michael Del Zotto and Tim Erixon are expected to be back in the
lineup as the Rangers take every opportunity to evaluate the young
defenders still battling for the last blueline jobs.The rest of the lineup has yet to be
revealed, but since the Rangers dressed 11 of the probable 12 forwards that
will be on the opening night roster for Thursday’s game, it’s safe to say that
some of the fringe players will play tomorrow.

The Blueshirts will next visit Bratislava, Slovakia to take
on HC Slovan on Sunday morning and then Zug, Switzerland to play EV Zug on
Monday before opening the season a week from tomorrow against the Los Angeles
Kings in Stockholm.